CVE-2007-5824 EXPLOIT
7.1
HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 5.6% (pctl 93)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
webserver.c in mt-dappd in Firefly Media Server 0.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and daemon crash) via a stats method action to /xml-rpc with (1) an empty Authorization header line, which triggers a crash in the ws_decodepassword function; or (2) a header line without a ':' character, which triggers a crash in the ws_getheaders function.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.1 (HIGH, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
| EPSS | 5.59% — more likely to be exploited than 93% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-20 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2007-11-05 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| firefly | media server |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Firefly Media Server 0.2.4 - Remote Denial of Service | 2007-11-02 |
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200110
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28269
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30661
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=98211&release_id=548679
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1597
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-18.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483210/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483211/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483215/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26309
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38241
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38242
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4600
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200110
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28269
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30661
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=98211&release_id=548679
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1597
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-18.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483210/100/0/threaded
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